Fw: Re: Release plans

[James Mckenzie]

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> From: James Mckenzie 
> Sent: May 21, 2010 8:20 AM
> To: [e-mail]
> Subject: Re: Release plans
>
> [e-mail] wrote:
> > > > And I didn't write trivial Mac patches either, e.g. to have
> > > > wineprefixcreate symlink c:\users\xyz\ Desktop + Videos + Documents +
> > > > Music to /Users/xyz/Desktop/ etc.  This happens on Linux, not on MacOS.
> > > > That's another (example of a) missing element.
> > > > (Why didn't I write it? Because I was unsure where to put the #ifdef)
> > >
> > > Isn't that linking done relative to $HOME, which should resolve to
> > > /Users/xyz on Mac?
> >
> > That's not the problem. What I also don't know is whether I could hardcode
> > the directories ~/Documents etc.
>
> AFIAK, I would not hard code them, but give a default of $HOME/Documents and $HOME/Desktop (this would allow users to change the directory, maybe through the registry or through environment variables. (these already exist in my /Users/xyz,
> > but what about Tiger?
>
> I don't think there are many Intel Macs running Tiger anymore and Darwine is completely dead.
> > or whether I ought to call some OSX API that
> > yields the name of the dir (and possibly creates it if it does not yet exist).
>
> This is a third idea that we may want to look at.
> > I'm not familiar at all with Mac APIs, but it sounds like an easy patch
> > for somebody with a little MacOS programming knowledge.
>
> Hmmm.
> > > > What can Mac users expect from this release?
> > >
> > > Hopefully, conversion to Linux :-).
> >
> > Actually, one day I was fed up with the Gnome and KDE4 GUIs,
> > so I started looking for something else. The Mac Mini with
> > NVidia came out right at that time: extremely silent (except
> > for the CD-ROM), excellent graphics (by far better than
> > any onboard Intel I knew previously) and it's a UNIX.
>
> My feelings exactly.  If Gnome and KDE were so good, why are there other Linux windows management tools?
>
> James McKenzie